Bad Camera Day

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Dennis
Can't say I've had one of these before but everything I tried to shoot today seemed to go wrong.
I was visiting a partly restored Franciscan Church on the East side of Manchester UK where the interiors were quite dark.
Firstly I started shooting with my FF Sony as JPEG only having completely forgotten to reset the camera after mucking about the other day. I didn't discover this until I got home.
Then I started shooting with my X100S and was half way through before I realised that I was overexposing every shot.
I'm supposed to do better than this. I guess I was having another senior moment.
Anyway it was an odd experience all round in a very odd building.

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Gorton Monastry
 
Messing around and forgetting to change the settings back? Been there many times. Exposure Comp. is a common mis-setting, but modern cameras can be pretty forgiving if you shoot in RAW. So just don't make these two mistakes on the same camera.;)
 
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Leaving the self-timer switched on by accident is my party trick. The symptoms are that the next time you try to take a picture, the camera appears to have locked up. You keep pressing the shutter release but nothing happens. While you think about taking the battery out to reset the camera, it takes a picture of your feet.

-R
 
Can't say I've had one of these before but everything I tried to shoot today seemed to go wrong.
I was visiting a partly restored Franciscan Church on the East side of Manchester UK where the interiors were quite dark.
Firstly I started shooting with my FF Sony as JPEG only having completely forgotten to reset the camera after mucking about the other day. I didn't discover this until I got home.
Then I started shooting with my X100S and was half way through before I realised that I was overexposing every shot.
I'm supposed to do better than this. I guess I was having another senior moment.
Anyway it was an odd experience all round in a very odd building.

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Gorton Monastry


You still got some nice images.:)
 
Maybe I'm just getting old but I can't remember having had any of these issues with my film cameras. Exposure time - aperture - focus - snap. They never got in the way, and that's what I miss the most.
Nice shots, btw.
 
Maybe I'm just getting old but I can't remember having had any of these issues with my film cameras. Exposure time - aperture - focus - snap. They never got in the way, and that's what I miss the most.
Nice shots, btw.

The curse of automation. When something that used to do one thing now does many things, the chances of something going wrong or user error definitely goes up. That is one of the reasons I love shooting with my Nikon Df. No video, exposure dials on the body, it just shoots, gets out of my way and doesn't confuse me with different modes.
 
IMHO Dennis, when you end up with fine photographs like the two you posted above, no point in complaining about how horribly you messed up the process of getting them! Whether it's a testament to the incredibly recovery possible with modern cameras, your skills as a photographer, your skills as a photo-processor, or any combination of the above, if you end up with a few keepers from the day, it was a GOOD camera day! That's my take on it in any case. There was a time when any slight mistake in exposure would result in something pretty close to unusable drek. Today, you have to miss by a HUGE amount to not be able to get a fine photograph out of a merely sort of OK file. Based on the results, I'd say you've done pretty well here!

-Ray
 
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Can't say I've had one of these before but everything I tried to shoot today seemed to go wrong.
I was visiting a partly restored Franciscan Church on the East side of Manchester UK where the interiors were quite dark.
Firstly I started shooting with my FF Sony as JPEG only having completely forgotten to reset the camera after mucking about the other day. I didn't discover this until I got home.
Then I started shooting with my X100S and was half way through before I realised that I was overexposing every shot.
I'm supposed to do better than this. I guess I was having another senior moment.
Anyway it was an odd experience all round in a very odd building.

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Gorton Monastry
Very nice shots, and extremely interesting to see that in a restored state. I used to pass by quite often as I travelled on the bus around the east side of Manchester when I was a lad, travelling between my house in Denton and various aunts and uncles round Gorton, Clayton and Collyhurst, and it was in quite a bad way if I remember correctly. Not sure about the wooden cladding but restorers seem to like this juxtaposition of old and new these days, in fact I believe planners often insist on it.
 
Having the wrong file type selected is unfortunately something thay can be easily missed. I did it once after I got a camera back from repair and which had been reset to the factory defaults. Accidentally under or over exposing a whole series of images on a digital camera seems a little more difficult to accomplish however (exposure preview, instant review, etc).
 
I've had bad camera days....packed my gear, sat on the train headed into the city, got off in the heart of the downtown area....only to then discover that on this day and without having fired a single shot, that I just couldn't be f.....d !
 
I've been there, I've done that, usually by knocking the exposure comp dial on my Fuji X-E1 (I've now protected the dial with a temporary fix).

I remember a couple of years ago I watched a video podcast by a professional photographer (I can't remember who) who, when asked for tips, said to always leave the camera on auto everything so that it is ready for for those unrepeatable opportunities. His premise was that you could often fix shortcomings in PP. I try to do this but sometimes I forget.
 
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I've set the ISO settings at my A7 on the scroll dial and normally it is set to 'auto'. One unnoticed click changed this to ISO50 and I often had wondered why the exposure time is so bad after a few shots.
The problem with the exposure compensation dial is well known to me on all Fuji in my possession. Especially after a quick draw out of the camera bag.
 
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Very nice shots, and extremely interesting to see that in a restored state. I used to pass by quite often as I travelled on the bus around the east side of Manchester when I was a lad, travelling between my house in Denton and various aunts and uncles round Gorton, Clayton and Collyhurst, and it was in quite a bad way if I remember correctly. Not sure about the wooden cladding but restorers seem to like this juxtaposition of old and new these days, in fact I believe planners often insist on it.
Evidently it's on a list of the World's 100 most "at risk" buildings along with the Taj Mahal .. can you believe it?
Favoured by Prince Charles and the Queen it's to have a rebuild at the front where the Friar's accommodation used to be.
Now used for Business Conferences and Weddings. High Victorian Gothic Architecture .. must be an acquired taste.
 
One of the things that drives me nuts, is all the setting I do not normally use seem to change between photo events, it happens to all of us
 
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